Amazon Kindle breaks all time sales record in the month of November

The month of November was a sweet one for the Amazon Kindle as the e-book reader posted its best sales month ever. The Kindle is the best selling electronics product on Amazon right now and hits the top spot as the most gifted and most wished for device. Seriously. With the Barnes & Noble Nook missing in action and Sony’s lineup of e-book readers still lacking wireless connectivity, the Kindle is the only game in town for the casual consumer looking to get in on the e-book explosion. It also doesn’t hurt that Amazon brought the Kindle down to a more reasonable $259 price point and added in that much requested international wireless connectivity. Somebody has to be buying all these Kindles, so ‘fess up, will there be a Kindle in your stocking this holiday season?

I just bought one but I also bought the Nook. We will see which one is better!

The Hammer

People still read books?

vivek reddy

I think you missed the big reason… They just upgraded the firmware to support pdf reading and landscape view. This opened up a whole new consumer base.

Black Friday

I’ll wait for the Nook to be restocked. My next school semester doesn’t start until mid January anyway.

Solomon David

Well, the Sony Reader Daily Edition will also have 3G wireless connectivity via AT&T, but it’s unavailable until at least mid December, so Kindle is enjoying its position as currently being the only major internet-enabled eBook reader available.

Jeff

Have they released sales numbers yet for the Kindle? They might as well be making these statistics up!

rodt

My feelings exactly. No offense but it is a ridiculous device to begin with.

http://n/a Nick-Nick

Still no color and one has to pay ~$10.0 for e-book! Any smart phones nowdays can do it, plus some more. I would consider to buy this for the price ~$50.

Matt

The Kindle has sold _____ units to break the all time sales record of _____!!!

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jonathan

I’ve had the kindle for the last 2 months and I like it so far. There have been a couple of books I wanted that was not available on the kindle store. The Nook has a stock of 1,000,000 and sounds like better choice right now.

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http://weekoldcheese.com Runciter

That stock of 1,000,000 books includes PD stuff from Gutenburg project which any e-reader can use. Feedbooks makes it super easy for any web enabled e-reader to download.

Maulik

PDF functionality helped it.

jonathan

Yes, I haven’t turned on my Kindle for the last 3 days and when I finally did, it auto updated itself to version 2.3, and yes the PDF functionality helps and my favorite is the ability to go landscape. I like to read that way sometimes and definitely better when viewing web pages. They also claim that with wireless on, the battery lasts a whole week. Although the Nook is also tempting, I’m sticking with the Kindle. Amazon has been successful at everything they’ve put out so far and I’m sure there will be updates to the kindle to keep up with competition. The book sharing option that is suppose to be on the Nook is really not a sure thing yet, since they are getting opposition from Publishers or has that been settled already. If I did not have a Kindle, I certainly would consider getting the Nook too. Even if the Nook has a nice touch interface on the lower half, it is still just based here in the US and no International downloading option for now. As far as speed, I’m happy with the current speed, after all; how fast do you need it to be to download just text? Getting a whole book in under a minute is perfect.

capt

in that case amazon I will tell you that my Ebook reader that is the most advanced and sophistiated reader yet has been doing extremely well, outsold all others and is the most popular among people that can read and have a brain, really amazing how well it’s done …… more to come from our location yet to be disclosed or mentioned and actually hasn’t been built yet either, very exciting. :)

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Tim

Who needs 3G on this? It just increases the cost and delays international sales. Still waiting hopefully for the Plastic Logic reader….

Daknarr

Makes me wonder…
Bought a Sony PRS-700 last year, and really, no complaints. I tend to download 2-3 books at a time (I spend a lot of time on airplanes). I have not once wished I had wireless connectivity (I’ve got a smartphone, and carry a laptop with an air-card), so I just wonder…is wireless connectivity that important for an eBook? Perhaps…

Tyler

Bougth one for my wife…..up here in Canada. SHe’s eager to get started but has to wait till X-mas!

big teeth

A girl on the bus was reading one of these. Somehow she managed to drop the thing, and then was sitting there trying to get it to turn back on. The next time I saw her, she was reading a book. Seems to me the Kindle fixes something that wasn’t broken..

VeeRod

I bought a Sony 505 last year. I enjoy using it, and I’ve got about 100 books that I haven’t paid one cent for. Between Google and all of the free book websites, I’m set for years to come.

What I’d like to point out that everyone glosses over is memory. My 505 has two memory cards (one SD and one Sony memory stick) giving me over 8gb of space. Fill all that up? It would take many thousands of books and/or music files.

The biggest drawback of the device is that is seems to slow down as it loads the entire library for browsing, and the eBook software absolutely sucks. A couple teenagers I know could do a better job.

I’m good for a few years when a new color, FAST, and easy to use device comes out.

http://twitter.com/nevaehkisses sidekickaddict

i think i should get 1 its better then having hundreds of books around the place lol … i guess that would be like a space maker

Zoltar

Yes, I bought one for the wife for Christmas….

Kathryn J.

I think that big teeth’s comment is interesting. Although the Kindle seems like a great device in that it is portable and liberates a reader from carrying multiple books, I feel that there was never really anything that needed to be fixed about books themselves. Personally, I would not consider purchasing a Kindle in the near future, merely because I like the feeling of having an actual book in my hands as I read. I enjoy highlighting certain passages, writing in words that enrich my understanding of the text, and folding over corners of pages at stopping points. I realize that the evolution of printed books into devices such as Kindles or Nooks can be compared to the transition of tapes, CDs, and Walkmans into iPods and digital music, but I think that these types of technologies are different. This is because a music consumer may want to hear many different songs by separate artists in a short amount of time, while a reader would most likely only go through a few books in this same amount of time, and not switch from novel to novel while reading. Therefore, they could easily carry two or three books with them, seeing that books, especially paperbacks, are portable and relatively light. In addition, they would not have to worry as much about damaging or losing printed books, since they are inexpensive and usually not difficult to replace.

jonathan

I have the Kindle and I still love the feel of a printed book and it really won’t replace books yet. But, in this age of electronics, internet and portability , e-book readers will continue to evolve just like the internet did. I can foresee maybe not in my lifetime, a world where going to school means bringing one device which has everything from books to a much evolved internet and the sending of information. Kinda deep but it could happen. We see it happening now, records are going paperless(save the trees) and all that stuff. Books won’t go away, but e-readers are the wave of the future. First it was the Kindle,then Sony ereader and now the Nook. These are clues as to where we are heading.

Kathryn J.

I did not mention the fact that devices such as the Kindle conserve paper, which is a very good point. Also, I think it is rather ironic that Barnes and Noble is selling the Nook. I believe it could hurt their stores, in that it would take away the demand for what the company was developed to sell – printed books. They could still sell eBooks, but can you imagine if Barnes and Noble became strictly a seller of eBooks? In this case, there would be no need for their actual stores, and I feel as though the company itself would then suffer.

joe

I bought one after the Nook was sold out.

Nay Sayer

e-books are not for serious readers. pure junk.

Pete

I bought the 505 for my wife for Christmas last year and she absolutely loves it. The Sony ebook store doesn’t have the selection Amazon does but it’s had the books she’s wanted. She doesn’t care about the wireless setting. She found several books she wanted and transferred them. She’s never been anywhere where she just had to have a book wirelessly. We would have considered the Kindle but our Amex points bought over half the 505. I have the Kindle book reader and B&N book reader on my iphone with several books. Suits me just fine. Just depends on what your preference is I guess.

Bamsquared

It’s funny to read some of the replies that people leave.

I own a Kindle2, bought it before it was released, and I love it. Would even buy it again at the original price. I use it daily to read the news, check my email and even get magazines delivered to it (all with the FREE wireless connection). Plus, I have only spent $38.59 reading somewhere near 300 books through finding free books (online and at amazon), books for a penny, etc. Is every NYT Bestseller free? No, but I have been exposed to many new authors that I would have never read if it were not for the Kindle.

Personally, I consider the fruitPhone a piece of junk (and I owned one). Is it a good concept? Sure, but the implementation is horrible. Reception is bad, the network is fail and the media is tied to just one company/application.

My point? To each his own when it comes to technology. No one thing is going to satisfy every single user out there. I don’t judge you and your device…

jonathan

I agree with the last line in your post, but the Iphone Kindle app to me is quite handy. If I have to leave and was in the middle of a great read I whip out the Iphone and open the kindle app and pick up where I left off. I don’t read on the Iphone very long since it makes my eyes sore after a while, but its good for short downtimes like waiting in line, in the car, breaktime and etc. i have no problem with the network where I live and yes I too would prefer another network that would carry the Iphone too. People trash the apps on the Iphone, but for me I am selective with it and every app I have I use although some like games are just once in a while. Like you said, to each his/her own.

Marc

I commute to work on the Long Island Railroad. Recently I noticed that I see a lot of people with Kindles where I used to see maybe one per week. I can easily go through 3 novels in a week and the library I frequent only has hardcover books. I can see the benefit of carrying a full library of material in such a small footprint.
I rarely if ever see people reading on an iPhone or similiar sized device.